Ep. 694 - Evil To The Left, Cowardice To The Right
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoes a bill that would have banned chemical castration of children in the state, and another family harassed on a plane because their young children weren t masked, and the police chief makes a surprising admission on the stand. Plus, our daily fix of 5 headlines you won't want to miss.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the cowardly governor of Arkansas vetoes a bill that would have banned
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the chemical castration of children in the state. The Republican Party continues to prove itself
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utterly useless in the fight against the radical left. Also, five headlines, including the insanely
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lenient plea deal offered to the two girls who carjacked and murdered a man in D.C.
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If this is privilege, it ain't white male privilege, that's for sure. Also, another family
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harassed on a plane because their young children weren't masked. And Derek Chauvin's defense gets
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the police chief to make a surprising admission on the stand. We'll play that for you. Plus,
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our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, one of the ugliest marine mammals, or rather marine animals, I should say, not a mammal,
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is known as the blobfish. If you saw only a picture of it online, you might imagine that you're looking
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at some sort of strange, half-melted claymation character. But the blobfish is very real. It
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floats along the seafloor, a slimy, droopy, gelatinous, toothless, bottom-feeding invertebrate
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mass, capable only of eating whatever microscopic edible material happens to float in front of it.
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It also has no muscle and no defense mechanism, except to slink along in the dark, hoping that the
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bigger fish don't notice it. This is why I've long believed that the blobfish should be the Republican
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Party's mascot. Republicans certainly are not worthy of their elephant totem. Elephants are
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noble, intelligent, strong, sturdy, formidable. Elected Republicans, with very rare exception,
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are none of those things. They are much more like the blobfish, spineless, squishy, ridiculous,
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defenseless, slithering along uselessly in the muck, hoping not to be noticed. Over the last couple
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weeks, Republicans have worked especially hard to earn the new mascot that I'm proposing.
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First, Kristi Noem of South Dakota vetoed a bill, as we discussed on this show, that would have banned
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males from women's sports. The stated reason for the veto was that the NCAA would be mad at her if
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she signed it, and she doesn't want to make them mad. That's only a slight paraphrase, if you remember
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when we played that audio clip. If you thought that would be the most egregious cave we've seen from
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a Republican this spring, you were mistaken. Caving, after all, is what Republicans do best.
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Perhaps on second thought, I should have suggested a sinkhole as the GOP's emblem.
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Maybe that would be more appropriate, even. And that brings us to Asa Hutchinson,
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the Republican governor of Arkansas. Hutchinson, ever the chivalrous gentleman, decided to rescue
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Noem from having to bear the title as the party's new biggest wimp. So yesterday, the governor announced
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that he was vetoing a bill that would have banned the chemical castration of children and all other
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forms of, quote, gender transition therapy for minors who lack the ability to fully consent to
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such life-altering procedures. Now, I could see how a conservative who's been living underground,
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let's say, for the past 15 years, or maybe at the bottom of the sea to keep the blobfish thing going,
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might oppose such a bill simply because it would seem to them to be so wildly unnecessary.
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I mean, surely they might protest. We don't need legislation to stop doctors from trying to
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physically turn boys into girls. Nobody would ever do such a thing. We don't need this bill.
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You might think that if you have not been above ground and conscious for the last 15 years,
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but Asa Hutchinson has been above ground and conscious as far as I know. He's been in the
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governor's mansion, which might as well be underground in so many cases. But no, he knows
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that a bill like this is indeed necessary, though it should not be, but it is.
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This is no mere theoretical or academic issue. Many millions of children are being indoctrinated
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into the left's gender theory doctrines as we speak. They're having gender confusion purposefully
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instilled in their minds. A certain sizable portion of them will eventually be, quote, transitioned.
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So this is a real issue and an important one. There are not many issues that can reasonably
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considered be considered more important, as far as I can tell. Hutchinson, as a sane,
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though spineless man, knows all of this. He vetoed the bill anyway on the basis that stopping doctors
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from doing physically, from dosing physically healthy children with dangerous hormone blockers
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is somehow government overreach, he said. Here he is explaining.
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House Bill 1570 would put the state as the definitive oracle of medical care,
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overriding parents, patients, and health care experts. While in some instances the state must act to
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protect life, the state should not presume to jump into the middle of every medical, human,
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and ethical issue. This would be and is a vast government overreach.
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This guy, he's 70 years old. He's about to be term limited, thank God. He can't run for re-election
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anyway. 70 years old, he's getting term limited out of the position as governor. What does he have to
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lose? Literally nothing to lose. You might as well just sign the bill. Yet he can't do it. That's how much
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of a completely useless coward this person is. Even in that position with nothing to lose,
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he still can't do it. He's terrified. He's terrified of making people mad at him.
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Now, he says he worries that the bill would allow the state to override parents, patients, and health care
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experts. But the patients in this case are children. We override the decisions of children all the time.
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I often have to issue my own parental vetoes, squashing my son's plan to eat nothing but
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ketchup and bread for every meal, or my daughter's proposal that she made recently that we capture a
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squirrel and bring it into the house as a pet. Okay, I had to veto that. Kids are famously bad
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at analyzing the long-term effects of their actions, or even the short-term effects. It's not
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their fault. They lack the neurological equipment to think in those terms. This is why we don't let
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children get tattoos or buy guns or buy tobacco products. They're simply too young to make those
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kinds of decisions for themselves. Override them? Yes, of course, all the time. That's our job as
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adults. What about the parents and the, quote, health care experts? Well, we'd have no trouble
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overriding a parent who took his 11-year-old son into the tattoo parlor to get a giant picture of
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Scooby-Doo inked permanently on his forearm. We would not only override such a parent, but they would
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likely get a visit from Child Protective Services, wouldn't they? It's possible for a parent to be
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wrong in the decisions they make for their child. It's possible for health care experts to be wrong
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too. This is one of those times. Indeed, health care experts not long ago would have said that a
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gender-confused child is either going through a phase or, worst case, is suffering from a mental
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disorder. There would have been no discussion of putting the child on drugs to change his body
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in order to conform it with his delusions. Therapy and counseling would have been the
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preferred treatment course not long ago. As it turns out, we have no choice but to use the word
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wrong in reference to these health care experts. They were either wrong a few years ago or they're
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wrong now. If you think they're right now, then you think they were wrong before. Whichever way you go,
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you're calling health care experts wrong. God forbid. And that's fine because health care experts
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can be wrong. And they most certainly are wrong in this case. And by the way, it's not like every
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health care expert actually agrees with this anyway. Despite what you may have been told, not every
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health care expert is lining up to endorse the idea of drugging children who are gender confused.
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It's just that the ones who don't endorse it, either are too afraid to speak too loudly in their
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opposition, or if they do speak up in opposition, they're going to be, well, they're going to get
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exactly the kind of treatment that Asa Hutchinson was afraid of receiving, which is why he made the
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decision he made. Now, Hutchinson, further explaining his veto, also explained that the bill is, quote,
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opposed by the leading Arkansas associations. The leading Arkansas associations. What associations?
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Oh, just the leading ones. You know, the associations, all of them. They don't like it.
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And he says, and the concern expressed is that denying best medical care to transgender youth
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can lead to significant harm to the young person from suicidal tendencies and social isolation
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to increased drug use. Okay. Consider what is happening here. A Republican governor in Arkansas
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is affirming the idea that chemical castration may be, quote, the best medical care for a boy who's
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confused about his gender. Again, this is a view so radical that only a few years ago, it wasn't even
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accepted by the most fringe people on the left. Now, in the blink of an eye, elected Republicans in the
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South are endorsing it. Our plunge into madness has hit warp speed and the Republican Party is completely
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incapable of doing anything about it and unwilling. And what is this medical care exactly? Well, in many
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cases, it means physically healthy boys taking drugs that were initially developed to treat prostate cancer in
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grown men. Okay. We're giving cancer drugs to children who are physically healthy. They're being
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dosed with off-label cancer drugs in order to halt their normal growth in maturation and to make their
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bodies more feminine. These same kinds of drugs, by the way, are also used to chemically castrate sex
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offenders. So I just want to reiterate that again. We're giving drugs to little boys and those
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same kinds of drugs are used to chemically castrate sex offenders. Now, all of this is done based on
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two premises, right? Number one, these are the premises. One, that some male children are really
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girls and some female children are really boys. And number two, that it's possible to turn the male
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children into girls by giving them drugs and vice versa for the female children. Both of these premises are
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wildly false, utterly indefensible. These are also not medical or scientific, but philosophical assertions.
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They are grounded in the belief that the self, right? The self is this amorphous, indeterminate,
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relative thing. According to this philosophical view, we can make and remake ourselves however we like
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because nothing about us is ingrained or innate, except our race somehow. This claim does not become
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any more credible just because doctors or medical experts make it. It is, again, not a medical claim.
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It is a religious dogma and it's absurd on its face. In reality, if a child has gender dysphoria,
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no hormone drug or surgery could ever be an effective treatment or an ethical one.
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The gender dysphoric person feels, you know, trapped inside a body that doesn't match,
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to use the National Health Service's phrase. This obviously cannot be anything but a disorder of the
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mind. It should go without saying that a person cannot actually have the wrong body. It doesn't make
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any sense. It's not as if our minds are entirely separate entities that are poured inside our bodies
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like a liquid into a container on some sort of apparently mistake-prone cosmic assembly line.
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It's a very strange form of dualism that sees the human person this way. I am my body. I can no more
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have the wrong sex than I can have the wrong right knee or the wrong left pinky finger or wrong eye color.
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I am who I am, biologically speaking. I cannot be anything other than that, no matter how I might
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feel about it. If I have trouble accepting my biological nature, then the correct course of
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treatment must be one that helps me to accept it. Deforming, mutilating, poisoning, or castrating me
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or suppressing my healthy physical development in any other way would be precisely the wrong
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approach. It's exactly like, exactly like giving laxatives and, you know, a fun house mirror to
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an anorexic. And the anorexic believes she's fat when really she's not. It would be cruel to, quote,
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treat a person struggling with this disorder by helping them to better see themselves by the light
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of their delusion. Okay, if an anorexic person comes up to you and says, I think I'm fat, the last thing
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you're going to do is say, you know what, if you identify as fat, then you are. I mean, if that's
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how you feel, I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong. If that's how you identify, let's get you some
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diet pills. Now, the point is that the anorexic thinks she's fat, but she's not. The gender dysphoric
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boy thinks he's a girl, but he's not. The confusion is the issue, not his body, not puberty, not his
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natural biological functions. They are not sick. If anything is sick, it's his mind, and that's what
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should be treated. Although in the case of children, most of the time, there's nothing even wrong with
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their minds. They're just going through a normal phase. They're confused. It's a very natural thing
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for a child to be confused, especially when they don't have any guidance from the adults in their
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lives. This is the position of all reasonable and decent people. And yes, so if you don't hold
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the position that I have just described, you are not a reasonable, decent person. You are a twisted,
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perverse, evil person. This is not a gray area issue. There are issues where reasonable and decent
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people can disagree respectfully. There are issues like that, plenty of issues. This is not one of
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those issues. If you endorse the idea of chemically castrating children, you are a disgusting, horrible
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person. That's it. Or you're crazy. Those are the two options. But the problem is that it also requires
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some small hint of courage, some small hint of courage to be reasonable and decent in an unreasonable
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and indecent culture. For many Republicans, such as Asa Hutchinson, that is simply too high a bar to get
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over. They will, in the end, go along with any evil, affirm any lie, countenance any delusion so that
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they might live another day politically and socially. Not live to fight another day, but simply to float
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another day, out of sight, out of mind, hoping that they will be eaten last. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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800-951-7163. All right, where are we starting here? So the Daily Mail has this. It says two girls
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ages 13 and 15 who were charged with the murder and carjacking of a Pakistani immigrant killed
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last month while working at his job delivering food in Washington, D.C. have reportedly reached
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a plea agreement with prosecutors. Now, you remember this case. We talked about it a few
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days ago. Maybe if you didn't watch the show or you weren't paying attention to conservative
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media that day, you may not have heard of it because the mainstream media was certainly happy
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to move on and not talk much about it. But it's on video. These girls, they carjacked this
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Pakistani immigrant, Mohammed Anwar, 66 years old. He was trying to do his job delivering food for
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Uber Eats, you know, and they tried to steal his car. They had a taser and he attempted to stop them
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from stealing his car because this is his livelihood. He needs his car in order to support himself and
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his family. And they drive off with him hanging out of the car. They flip the car, send him hurtling.
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He dies on the pavement, bleeding. And then they're rescued from the car by some National
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Guardsmen who were standing there. And nobody has any concern for Mohammed Anwar who's just
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laying there bleeding, dead or dying. No one even checks on him. And the girls, the only thing they're
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worried about is their phone. They're like stepping around the dead man saying, I need my phone. I need my
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phone. So that's the case. If you didn't hear about it. Well, on Monday, the teens reportedly reached the
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plea deal with prosecutors that would ensure that they will not be held past the age of 21, nor be placed in a
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prison facility. So they carjacked the man and murdered him. And they're not going to prison. According to this,
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they're not going to spend a day in prison and they'll be totally free to go by the age of 21.
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Which means in, uh, for the one girl in the, by, in six years, if she's getting any sentence at all,
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you know, it's, and it's not gonna be prison. It's six years. Now you have to ask, you know,
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this, this girl who murdered a man at 15 and, uh, and cared so little for his life that the only
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thing she was worried about was her phone afterwards. Do you think like six years from
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now, after spending six years in whatever the juvenile detention system or wherever she is
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going, you think she's going to be magically a better person and less of a danger to society
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right now? She is a murdering sociopath who does not value human life at all.
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So you add six years on top of that going through the juvenile system. Um, and after she's already
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been getting given the message from the court system that what she did, wasn't all that bad.
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You think those factors are going to make her a better person, less of a danger?
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You know, when this person gets out of jail, are you going to feel, would you feel comfortable
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around her? Would you let her babysit your kids? No, I don't think so. No, we, because we all,
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this is the way it's going to, we all know how it's going to go because it's gone this way a million
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times. So we all know this story. And the story is, um, she gets a slap on the wrist from the court
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system. They release her, uh, back after, after she does her, you know, pays, pays a whatever
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penalty, whatever symbolic penalty. And then she's released back into society. And, you know,
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a couple of months later, a couple of years later, she will either be dead or she'll have killed
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someone or both. And if she's not dead, she'll be back. She'll end up back in prison in this time
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for, you know, 10, 15 years. And then we'll release her again. And we'll do this all over
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again. While she continues to be nothing but a danger to, and a strain on society and all for
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what? Now, the other question we have to ask ourselves is, um, if in this case, these girls,
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these were, uh, two teenage black girls, you know, let's just ask ourselves if this was, uh,
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especially in DC of all places, if this was, uh, if we had a video of a 15 year old white male
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teenager, carjacking a Pakistani immigrant and killing him and then getting out of the car.
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And the only thing he was worried about his phone is his phone. Do you think he's going to get this
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deal? You think that's going to happen, especially in DC? We all know, no, that's not going to happen.
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So this is an example of privilege, but it's not white male privilege. That's for sure.
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And I think, you know, their race certainly helps them in this case,
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but gender is probably the most salient factor here because the fact is that women, there are,
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there's a lot of ingrained privilege for women in our culture today. And nowhere is that more
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apparent than in the court system. In fact, here's an article. This I think is a relevant. Here's an
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article from Michigan, from the Michigan law website. And it says, uh, I'm talking about a
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recent, uh, research paper that was done. It says, if you're a criminal defendant, it may help a lot
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to be a woman. At least that's what professor Sanja Starr's research on federal criminal cases
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suggests. Professor Starr's recent paper, quote, estimating gender disparities in federal criminal
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cases looks closely at a large data set of federal cases and reveal some significant findings.
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Listen to this. After controlling for the arrest, offense, criminal history, and other prior
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characteristics, quote, men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do. And women
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are twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. This gender gap, the gender gap is
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about six times as large as the racial disparity that professor Starr found in another recent paper.
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Now we hear a lot about the racial disparity in the court system. Um, the gender disparity is much
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more significant and we don't hear anything about it. Now keep in mind again, because one of the
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things, if ever you bring this up and you bring up the fact that women are much more likely to get a
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lenient sentence, which is true, the immediate response will be, yeah, well, women commit less
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violent crime and all that. No, this is after controlling for the type of crime, uh, criminal
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history, all of that. So you take a man and a woman, at least in federal court, and, uh, they're
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identical in what they've done in their criminal history. Only thing that's different is their sex.
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The woman's going to get a lesser penalty, significantly lesser penalty.
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So this is a case here. This is, um, what's happening with these girls. I would call this,
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it's a couple of levels of privilege here as they're, as they get to cash in their victim points,
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which, which literally amounts to a get out of jail free card in this case, or at least get out
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of prison free because they're not going to prison. But of all the privilege, their female privilege,
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I think is the most, um, significant here. All right. Number two, a family with a two-year-old
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and a special needs child was kicked off, temporarily kicked off, uh, a Spirit Airlines flight.
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They were eventually let back on apparently, but that doesn't, that doesn't make what we're about
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to see here. Okay. And, uh, let's, let's watch it here.
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Okay. So she's saying, she's saying that they're, they're noncompliance.
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Meanwhile, both of the, both of the adults are wearing a mask. All we see there is the toddler
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who's by the way, totally unbothered. So you got to like about toddlers. She's just sitting there
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enjoying her yogurt, completely oblivious to everything.
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She's eating a yogurt and she's not, not only is she a toddler, but she's also in the process of
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eating. And so that's why she's getting singled out. Okay. All right.
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And then, and then eventually they were, so they also have a special needs child who you
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can't see in the video right now, but sitting in between the parents, there's a special needs
00:25:56.120
child, uh, a little bit older, but he, you know, he's looks like he's, I don't know how old
00:25:59.860
he is, but certain young, he's a young child. Um, they were eventually kicked off the flight
00:26:05.100
forced to, to get off the flight. And then they, and then they were allowed to get back on
00:26:09.500
after going through all of this rigmarole and the, and the, uh, uh, humiliation and all of that,
00:26:16.480
they were eventually let back on. That doesn't make this okay though, to harass a family with
00:26:22.000
young children and humiliate them like this only to let them back on it. None of that is okay. I mean,
00:26:29.620
this is, this is evil behavior. And what I hate the most about it, there are so many things I hate
00:26:34.520
about it, but the worst thing, and you can, it's, it's hard to hear the audio, but you can hear the
00:26:40.040
flight attendant there saying that, Hey, this is the policy. There's nothing I can do about it. And
00:26:45.960
yeah, I don't like it either, but having these people hide behind policy while they're, you know,
00:26:55.840
harassing families who aren't doing anything wrong, insisting that they muzzle their young
00:27:03.680
children for no reason, no, no real medical reason, just do it because it makes everyone
00:27:10.400
else feel more comfortable, allegedly. And they hide behind the policy. You know, policies are not
00:27:16.620
these, uh, you know, like deities that are hovering there and, and, and can cause you to do things you
00:27:23.320
don't want to do. Policies are just, they're nothing unless you have people to enforce them.
00:27:29.400
A policy can't do anything unless people enforce it. And so if you are choosing to enforce it,
00:27:36.760
then you can't hide behind that policy. It's a choice that you are making.
00:27:43.420
And meanwhile, this is a spirit airlines. Like if this doesn't convince you to stop flying spirit,
00:27:48.120
then I don't know what will. Because on top of this, on top of them harassing young families with
00:27:54.340
young children, uh, they're also just one of the worst companies in existence.
00:28:01.560
Flying spirit airlines is a, it's a, even compared to most other airlines, and this is saying something,
00:28:07.740
it's a miserable experience. They spirit airlines, they hate their customers. You can just tell they
00:28:15.000
hate you. It's one of those things. And this is at every level in my experience. Anyway, customer service,
00:28:22.680
if you have to call them or you get on the flight, the flight attendants, everyone's in a bad mood.
00:28:27.280
They don't like you. They don't want you there.
00:28:31.440
So it's a horrible service. Um, the, the planes are cramped. It's like, they're sticking you into
00:28:37.220
these sardine cans. And, uh, and on top of that, they treat their customers like crap, as you just saw
00:28:43.380
there. But that's not enough to convince you. And the thing is, I would say I will happily pay like
00:28:50.140
$400 more to fly on a better airline, but all the other airlines are crap too. So, or most of them
00:28:56.640
anyway. All right. Number three, Derek Chauvin's defense yesterday started, um, homing in on the
00:29:02.880
concept of camera perspective bias. And what they're suggesting is that at least some of the video we've
00:29:09.140
seen of Chauvin supposedly kneeling on, on, uh, George Floyd's neck may have been deceptive, not to
00:29:14.520
say that they were deceptively edited, but, but just that the perspective of the camera is misleading.
00:29:20.260
So here's a pretty, I think a pretty, uh, pretty stunning moment where the, the defense attorney
00:29:26.460
gets the police chief to agree that, um, at least for part of this time, Derek Chauvin did not have
00:29:34.160
his knee on George Floyd's neck, but had his knee on George Floyd's back. So let's, uh, let's watch this.
00:29:38.480
Chief that from the perspective of Ms. Frazier's camera, it appears that officer Chauvin's knee
00:30:00.220
Okay. Now they're changing the camera to a different angle. As you can see, they've got
00:30:04.440
the split screen and you can see one, one angle. It really looks like Derek Chauvin has his knee
00:30:12.120
on the neck, but you can't always trust it. We should have learned this by now. You can't always
00:30:18.460
trust these, uh, the videos that you see of these incidents. Of course, we see the videos out of
00:30:27.080
context. Everyone immediately jumps to conclusion, but sometimes it's deceptive and eventually he's
00:30:33.520
going to ask the police chief, the question, I think. Would you agree that from the perspective
00:30:39.280
of officer King's body camera, it appears that officer Chauvin's knee was more on Mr. Floyd's
00:30:55.920
I have no further questions. It's a significant moment, um, right there because it's all about,
00:31:02.480
again, just sowing the reasonable doubt, uh, seeds of doubt. That's, that's what defense
00:31:08.680
attorney is supposed to do. He doesn't have to prove innocence. He just has to prove or demonstrate,
00:31:14.220
um, that the prosecution has not made its case beyond a reasonable doubt. So there's doubt now
00:31:20.060
about how long Derek Chauvin had his knee on, um, George Floyd's neck. Doubt about that.
00:31:28.760
Uh, there's doubt about how exactly George Floyd died. There are conflicting medical examinations,
00:31:37.220
medical examiners saying different things. There's doubt about whether he died of an overdose.
00:31:43.780
I mean, at a minimum, there's doubt about all these things.
00:31:48.100
Does all that add up to reasonable doubt about Chauvin's guilt or innocence?
00:31:53.520
It certainly seems to. All right. Number four, this is from the Hill. It says, um,
00:32:00.840
a new state law in Utah will legally require that biological fathers pay half of women's pregnancy
00:32:06.200
expenses. Some states such as New York and Wisconsin have similar financial provisions for
00:32:10.980
pregnancies. The bill signed by governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, uh, was well received by Utah's
00:32:16.860
Republican majority legislature and will apply to pregnancy related medical costs.
00:32:20.820
In cases where a child's paternity is disputed, the father won't need to pay until the paternity
00:32:25.340
is established. Fathers also will not be liable to pay for abortions carried out without their
00:32:30.220
consent, except in cases of rape or when the mother's life is endangered. Um, yeah, Republicans
00:32:36.080
apparently are celebrating this. I, I, I'm, I'm, I wish that I could support a bill like this. I,
00:32:43.980
you know, in principle, um, in a, in a perfect ideal world, I would support this because yes,
00:32:51.840
if you're a father and you, you know, it takes two to tango as they say. And, um, if you help to
00:32:58.360
conceive a child, then you should be responsible for that child. And that responsibility should be,
00:33:04.140
you know, again, in an ideal situation, that responsibility would even be, you know,
00:33:09.200
there would be law behind that to enforce it. Now, if you're doing what you should do,
00:33:14.520
this should be a non-issue. Like if you get married and then you have kids that you don't
00:33:18.820
have to worry about splitting it 50, 50. I mean, I really paid for 100% of our pregnancy related
00:33:24.700
costs because I'm the breadwinner in the family and we're married. And so it's not an issue enough
00:33:28.560
to think about it. Right. But these are the complications you do have to consider if you,
00:33:33.080
um, you know, are having kids out of wedlock. But the reason why I can't support this is that we,
00:33:39.760
we don't live, we live in something quite far from the ideal world. And in this non-ideal world,
00:33:44.960
there is, as was mentioned here, um, abortion. And what that means is that the mother has 100%
00:33:52.860
authority to have her child executed. And the father has no say in that whatsoever.
00:33:59.640
So you can't have it both ways here. If, if, if we're going to legally require men to pay 50%
00:34:07.280
for, for, uh, you make them financially responsible for 50% of the pregnancy,
00:34:12.360
then do they also have 50% say in whether the child's going to be executed?
00:34:19.580
If they don't, then I don't see how you can put them on a, you know, I don't see how you can give
00:34:23.940
them half the tab for the pregnancy costs, but you know, either we are legally treating the unborn
00:34:31.180
child as also the father's child or not. Either the unborn child is legally also the father's child
00:34:40.100
and the father's responsibility or not. And if you're telling me that the father has no right
00:34:46.060
to stop the woman from having the child executed, then what you're telling me is that legally,
00:34:51.080
while the child is in the womb, it's not really the father's child and not really the father's
00:34:56.080
responsibility. That's not the way it should be. That's the way it is though.
00:35:01.720
So we can't do this other stuff until we first take care of that problem.
00:35:07.740
All right. Number five, finally news from a really important news. I've been waiting to get to this,
00:35:12.360
uh, news from FIU, uh, the FIU football Twitter account. And it says, please welcome coach Horny
00:35:21.080
to FIU as our new special teams coordinator, coach Horny. I gotta say, I'm really fascinated by this
00:35:29.040
career change for, uh, Katie Hill. You know, she went from Congress to coaching football, big step.
00:35:35.020
That's it. That's it. I just wanted to make that joke about coach Horny. That's a real guy. Um,
00:35:40.960
there's a guy, his name's really coach Horny. I don't know anything else about him. I just know
00:35:43.920
that's his name. And I know presumably he has lived with that name his whole life, which is unthinkable.
00:35:50.700
How, how do you survive middle school with a, with a name like Horny? How do you do that?
00:35:57.500
I really think as a, you know, don't you have, you have a responsibility as a parent to like probably
00:36:03.700
change your last name. I don't know how, that's probably a difficult thing to do, but you gotta,
00:36:07.640
you gotta do something. You can't saddle a kid with that. It's not going to work.
00:36:13.360
How do you do anything? I mean, how do you ask a girl on a date as a teen boy with a last name like
00:36:19.180
Horny? And then he becomes a coach. So, which means that he's always going to be identified by his last
00:36:26.760
name for the rest of his life. That's tough. And here I am making fun of it like a middle schooler
00:36:34.140
myself. What else am I going to do? All right, let's move to reading the YouTube comments. This
00:36:38.440
is from Caleb says, Hey Matt, long time listener and enjoy the show. Um, you are my favorite DW host
00:36:45.100
and I want to get on reading the comment section. And I see that flattery works for this. It does
00:36:49.260
indeed. It does indeed. Another comment says tap water is really the champagne of freedom
00:36:55.240
to be honest. What tap water is the champagne of freedom. And this comment has like five likes
00:37:03.560
don't, don't like it. Don't encourage that. That doesn't make any sense. That doesn't mean
00:37:07.580
anything. Uh, Madeline says, um, I'll stop drinking Coke if the rest of you do. Well, I already did.
00:37:16.800
I stopped drinking Coke, um, you know, years ago because I decided I wanted to live past the age of 45.
00:37:26.060
You were just, if you're drinking, especially non-diet Coke, you are, you might as well like
00:37:32.880
three times a day, go grab a whole bag of sugar and just start dumping it into your mouth.
00:37:39.500
So yes, um, I already stopped drinking. It's so it is, I admit easy for me to boycott Coke
00:37:44.260
because I really don't drink it anyway, but even so that's what we should all do.
00:37:47.980
Uh, Christian says, please review the new space jam trailer. I remember when you canceled your kids
00:37:53.080
last time over space jam, LOL. I did see there's a new space jam coming out with LeBron James and I
00:37:58.880
did watch the trailer. Speaking of incoherent, it makes no sense whatsoever. It's, it's really,
00:38:03.020
and this is no surprise. It's, I guess we could call it product placement, the movie
00:38:07.560
because I don't know what the plot is, but it appears to be, it's just one long commercial,
00:38:12.740
um, for all of the movie studios, other products and, uh, and franchises. That's that. And that's
00:38:21.060
also the point of every superhero movie, by the way, it's really one long commercial
00:38:24.080
for the merchandise and the action figures. It's like every superhero movie is one long
00:38:28.800
action figure commercial. That's its main function. Um, let's see. Uh, Armando says,
00:38:36.720
Matt, you're missing the point on the Amazon controversy, controversy. Workers feel forced
00:38:41.380
to urinate and defecate on bags because of the unreasonable and unrealistic goals set by Amazon.
00:38:47.500
They have a horrible system in which workers feel they have to outperform to meet the ridiculous goals.
00:38:52.600
So I get that. I worked for a call center years ago when I was a teenager where they stopped paying
00:38:57.420
you. If you went to the bathroom, like you were only paid, you had to sit there and you know,
00:39:04.000
you had your headset on and I was a telemarketer. Okay. Uh, one of the most, so I, you know, what,
00:39:08.880
what the hated dreaded telemarketer and you sat there, um, at your computer and it would,
00:39:16.100
and it would automatically dial people and you just, and you'd take one call after another.
00:39:19.960
If you put your headset, if you paused it and put your headset down and went to go to the break
00:39:24.040
room for a second to get some water or go to the bathroom, you, you were not paid for that time.
00:39:28.720
Every second that you were not in the process of making a call or taking a call, you were not paid.
00:39:34.940
So I understand that. But in this case, they're complaining that drivers, I don't know what's
00:39:40.360
going on at the Amazon warehouses. And as I said, I have no interest in defending Amazon. I don't care
00:39:43.740
about defending them, but the complaint or part of the complaint was that drivers on the road
00:39:48.640
were forced to pee in bottles. I still don't understand how that could be Amazon's fault.
00:39:55.020
They can't really do anything about the scarcity of bathrooms on a highway. Can they?
00:40:02.360
Um, let's see. Lauren West finally says, honestly, I agree. I'm 17 and yet I'm having trouble deciding
00:40:10.780
to go to college or not. Well, I could tell you, you know, here's my advice. You're 17.
00:40:16.860
I mean, presumably you're going to, I guess you're going to, well, you're going to graduate this
00:40:20.660
year. So, uh, what I would say is don't, that's actually an easy choice. Don't go to college right
00:40:26.480
now. I'm not saying never go, but there's really no compelling reason for a 17 or 18 year old to
00:40:34.400
go to college. You can graduate high school, go out and work in the, in the real world for a little
00:40:41.740
bit. College will always be there. There's no downside at all. You take a couple, you're not,
00:40:49.360
who are you, you're not racing anybody. There's, this is not a race. College is always going to be
00:40:54.160
there. They'll always be more than happy to take your money if you want to give it to them. Um, so
00:40:58.000
there's no downside and take it a couple of years. You work, you earn some money, get some life
00:41:01.940
experience, maybe figure out yourself a little bit more, figure out what you want to do with your life.
00:41:07.200
And then with that experience, a little bit of money under your belt and, um, knowing, uh, having
00:41:14.000
a clear picture of, of your future goals. Then if you want to go into college, that's my advice.
00:41:19.860
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00:43:01.860
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00:43:05.800
and replace them with their own pseudo morality. That's why we've launched a brand new talk show
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00:43:19.780
can watch her host lively discussion panels and exclusive interviews with an always exciting round
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00:43:37.440
who aren't actually passing on the basis of what they know, when they get out into the real world,
00:43:41.860
I'm opening that up for any of you guys. I'll say, I always thought that they'll get out into the real
00:43:47.500
world and they're going to be introduced to reality and they're going to have to adjust to it. Uh, and
00:43:52.780
that's what we all said. All conservatives said that, oh, these snowflakes are going to get out into
00:43:56.400
the real world. But then we forgot that they, that they, they get to make the real world. I mean, they're
00:44:01.540
the ones taking over. And so they have reshaped reality in their image. And so unfortunately, uh, they're
00:44:07.400
not really getting the wake of the rest of us are getting the wake of call. Brilliant, brilliant
00:44:11.540
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00:44:42.420
Today, we're going to cancel everybody involved with this story in USA Today, written by
00:44:46.360
Rasha Ali. It's titled quote, the, the pandemic forced us to stop hugging and shaking hands.
00:44:52.180
That's not necessarily a bad thing. The article goes on to quote a number of supposed experts,
00:44:57.100
including Dr. Fauci, who argues that we as a society should never go back to what were once,
00:45:02.000
uh, normal, universal ways of greeting each other. Fauci is quoted as saying that we should
00:45:06.700
never shake hands again because shaking hands is quote, really one of the major ways that you
00:45:12.100
transmit a respiratory illness. That's what he's saying. Other experts, including a, um,
00:45:17.500
quote unquote experts, including a psychotherapist and a health educator in San Francisco
00:45:22.140
argue that shaking hands and hugging may sometimes be a violation of a person's autonomy,
00:45:28.880
especially when children are urged to participate in that custom. And so maybe that's why we should
00:45:34.380
never go back to that again. From the article, it says,
00:45:36.820
it's a common tale. An adult relative comes over and a parent tells a child to greet that person
00:45:42.580
with a hug or a kiss. But as physical touch vanished during the pandemic, the pressure put
00:45:47.280
on kids to physically greet each other or greet people waned. And experts say it's a practice we
00:45:52.100
should stick with after the pandemic quote, we want our kids to trust their intuition, especially when
00:45:57.400
it relates to body autonomy. We also want kids to have a sense of agency when it comes to their
00:46:01.340
intuition and their bodies, which is an important part of their emerging sexuality. According to
00:46:06.260
health educator, Shafia Zaloum. Now, okay, it is of course, enormously creepy to think of a child
00:46:12.620
giving their visiting grandmother or aunt a kiss as something at all related to their emerging
00:46:18.480
sexuality as Shafia Zaloum seems to. It's also insane to relate any of this to bodily autonomy or to
00:46:26.140
make an issue out of any of it at all. And I say this as someone who quite jealously guards my own
00:46:32.340
personal space and I have no interest in hugging anyone outside of my immediate family. Even so,
00:46:37.800
I don't see the pandemic related changes as an improvement. And I certainly wouldn't want to
00:46:42.780
embrace them as permanent solutions. Now, to make matters worse, the article suggests a number of
00:46:49.260
alternative greetings that we're all invited to adopt moving forward. And so here are the,
00:46:54.900
they have a little handy chart and a diagram showing what this would all look like.
00:46:58.520
So first they have the hand wave, you know, and there's nothing wrong with a hand wave generally,
00:47:04.140
but it's, it's awkward to stand three feet from someone face to face and wave at them,
00:47:09.460
which is what you see people doing now. It's just like standing. That's what my one-year-old daughter
00:47:14.520
does. She'll go up to someone right in their face and start waving like this. And that's fine for a
00:47:20.100
one-year-old. For adults, it looks ridiculous. You're both standing there like morons, three feet
00:47:25.360
from each other waving. Another suggested alternative is to put your hand across your chest
00:47:30.920
like this, which looks like a greeting that you might see on Star Trek or something.
00:47:36.900
And then of course the elbow bump, they suggest, where two grown adults awkwardly touch elbows,
00:47:42.060
which makes them look, I don't know, deformed. Or maybe it looks like they're about to go into
00:47:47.880
some kind of secret handshake that they've devised, but they both forget the rest of the moves. So
00:47:51.680
they just stop right there. Whatever the case, it's stupid. And if you come up to me sticking
00:47:58.000
out your elbow and hoping that I touch it, don't be surprised if, if my elbow misses your elbow and
00:48:04.240
accidentally jabs you directly in the nose. Accidents happen. I mean, you know, you never know.
00:48:09.740
Finally, the chart here suggests as another option, and this apparently is not a joke.
00:48:13.840
It suggests a foot shake. Okay. Now with a foot shake, I haven't seen anyone, thank God,
00:48:22.160
actually doing this, but this is what USA Today suggests. With a foot shake, two people walk up to
00:48:27.040
each other and while standing, they look into each other's eyes and begin to play a game of one-legged
00:48:31.780
footsie. Yes, because this will be way less awkward and sexual than a handshake somehow. I mean,
00:48:37.860
if you're worried about telling your child to go give Uncle George a hug, how much worse would it sound
00:48:43.440
to say, Johnny, your uncle's here. Come play footsie with him. Play footsie with your uncle. Don't be
00:48:47.860
rude. This is why I'm happy to stick with shaking hands and hugging. You know, not only is it possible
00:48:55.380
for grown adults to engage in those activities without looking like awkward nerds or demented
00:48:59.440
freaks, which is more than I can say for the alternatives, but it also makes social interaction
00:49:04.060
smoother precisely because there are fewer options. Everyone understands that when you're greeting
00:49:10.640
someone, it's either a handshake or a hug, depending on your relationship to that person.
00:49:15.840
Now, sometimes there's the awkwardness of, you know, you go for the handshake when the other
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person goes for a hug, or even worse, if you go for a hug and the other person goes for a handshake,
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kind of letting you know where your relationship stands. But this awkwardness was minimized by the
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fact that there were only the two options. So it's got to be one or the other. If you go for one and it's
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not then that, then you know it's the other. Pretty simple. If we get rid of those options and we
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leave it up to each individual to devise his own unique form of greeting, we're just going to be
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left not knowing what to do. And this is the case with so much in society because when we get rid of
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all these, all these, you know, one at a time, all these different social conventions out the window
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and allegedly to free people up to, you know, be how they want, all that means is that nobody knows
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how to interact with each other. And now you get rid of handshakes and hugs. You know, you might go for
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the wave while they go for the elbow bump. And then you transition to the foot shake. The other
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person tries the hand across the chest. All you want to do is say hi to the person. And now the two
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of you are doing the hokey pokey. None of this is necessary. We had a fine system before. It was
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working fine. There is no reason to abandon it. You know, you got to get over your own compunctions,
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your own germophobia. Time to get past that. Get back to normal. That's what we got to do.
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And anyone with, uh, who, who wants to get rid of the handshake is canceled. And especially anyone
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who wants to replace the handshake with a foot shake or elbow touching or any other inappropriate
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activity like that is also certainly canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for
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